Gaho Fuzoku Kitan

July 1960

Publication: July 1960 Issue: 2
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Summary

This second collection of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan is organized as an unusually image-dominant survey of erotic restraint, punishment imagery, fetish costume, and sensational fiction. After a cover announcing a visual compendium of abnormal customs, the opening leaves combine historical prints and photographs before a formal contents spread introduces three long photographic groupings, illustrated galleries, foreign and historical material, and several fictional or documentary narratives. The first half is dominated by staged photographic sequences. Women are posed with rope, cloth, furniture, architectural fittings, garden rocks, water, ladders, chairs, bedding, and tiled bathing spaces. The layouts repeatedly convert domestic rooms and landscaped gardens into theatrical sites of captivity. Short captions assign each configuration a dramatic title, moving from suspension and compact body-folding to chair bondage, outdoor exposure, bath scenes, blindfolding, gagging, and poses framed as human cargo or living ornaments. A separate eight-view portfolio emphasizes intoxication, languor, and costume, while later blue-toned and sepia sequences study increasingly varied knots and restraints. The middle section shifts from photography to historical and international visual culture. An “Abnormal Secret Picture Exhibition” reproduces images of whipping, corporal punishment, executions, public humiliation, and grotesque caricature. The following gallery surveys women in riding clothes, trousers, boots, masculine dress, same-sex dominance, and self-punishment imagery. A substantial illustrated essay on women wearing trousers links fashion, cross-dressing, performance, and gendered spectacle. The final third returns to prose and illustrated narrative. It includes a sensational account of eccentric and unusual customs, the supernatural tale “A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake,” lurid overseas stories such as “Human Steak,” “Journey Through the Desert of Death,” and “The Ice Field Crazed by Desire,” an illustrated guillotine feature, a documentary-style survey of gruesome murder scenes, and the period melodrama “The Torment of Kichiya in Mad Love.” Together these sections give the issue an encyclopedic yet theatrical identity, combining staged bondage photography, historical punishment iconography, gender transgression, crime reporting, exoticized foreign settings, and illustrated erotic melodrama. The closing page contains publication data and notices.

Themes

Staged rope bondage photography Domestic interiors transformed into sites of captivity Outdoor restraint, water, gardens, and natural settings Furniture, ladders, chairs, bedding, and household objects as bondage apparatus Historical corporal punishment and execution imagery Women in trousers, riding clothes, boots, and masculine costume Cross-dressing and gendered spectacle Grotesque caricature and abnormal customs Sensational crime and murder reporting Supernatural erotic obsession Foreign and exoticized punishment narratives Illustrated period melodrama

Highlights

A formal two-page-style contents design printed on a single PDF spread organizes the issue into three photographic groupings, art galleries, overseas stories, illustrated fiction, and documentary features.
editorial structure PDF 4
The opening photographic portfolio develops a sequence of compact suspension, body-folding, furniture bondage, outdoor water imagery, and staged domestic captivity.
photographic portfolio PDF 8–23
The second photographic grouping uses chairs, beds, bathing spaces, garden rocks, and rope to create a catalogue of poses with individually titled tableaux.
photographic portfolio PDF 24–39
“Eight Views of Intoxicated Female Bodies” presents a concentrated black-and-white sequence of bound women, each image captioned with the name of an alcoholic drink.
thematic photo series PDF 40–47
The third photographic grouping shifts into blue-toned printing and emphasizes blindfolding, bed restraint, outdoor tree bondage, inverted shrimp positions, and tiled-room tableaux.
photographic portfolio PDF 48–63
The “Abnormal Secret Picture Exhibition” reproduces historical and foreign imagery of whipping, corporal punishment, executions, public humiliation, and grotesque figures.
historical visual archive PDF 64–79
The illustrated gallery on riding women, trousered women, boots, same-sex domination, and self-punishment documents the magazine’s interest in gender variance and fetish clothing.
fashion and gender history PDF 80–95
“A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake” combines prose, ukiyo-e-derived imagery, and modern illustration in a supernatural tale of erotic fixation.
illustrated fiction PDF 101–104
The closing narrative cluster combines exoticized overseas violence, guillotine imagery, murder-scene photography, and an illustrated Edo-period tale of obsessive love.
sensational fiction and crime PDF 105–126

Table of Contents

Review TOC Data Backfill Article Themes
Title Author Printed Pages PDF Pages
Pleasure by the Pond Uncredited 2 6
Foot Fetishism Uncredited 3 7
Hanging from the Transom Uncredited 4–6 8 –10
A Woman as an Ornament Uncredited 7–8 11 –12
Human Luggage Uncredited 9–10 13 –14
Shrimp Torment Uncredited 11–12 15 –16
Struck by Water Uncredited 13–14 17 –18
Glossy Bound Pose Uncredited 15–16 19 –20
Stepladder Torment Uncredited 17–18 21 –22
Quiet Ecstasy of Torment Uncredited 19 23
Bound to a Chair Uncredited 20–21 24 –25
Six Poses of a Beautiful Prisoner Uncredited 22 26
The White Mermaid's Struggle Uncredited 23–24 27 –28
Beautiful Human Pillar Uncredited 25–26 29 –30
Cruelty on the Bed Uncredited 27–28 31 –32
Tortoise-Shell Binding Uncredited 29–31 33 –35
Four Bewitching Flowers Uncredited 32 36
Pleasure of the Bath Uncredited 33–34 37 –38
Merciless by the Water Uncredited 35 39
Eight Views of Intoxicated Female Bodies Uncredited 36–43 40 –47
Pleasure in the Darkness Uncredited 44–45 48 –49
Become a Dog Uncredited 46 50
Bound to a Tree Uncredited 47–48 51 –52
Cushions Are Also Instruments of Torment Uncredited 49–50 53 –54
Upside-Down Shrimp Suspension Uncredited 51–53 55 –57
A Pose Awaiting Torment Uncredited 54–55 58 –59
The Subtle Mystery of the Female Body Uncredited 56–57 60 –61
Lingering Sensuality Uncredited 58 62
Cold Tile Uncredited 59 63
People Being Whipped Uncredited 60–68 64 –72
Cruel Punishments Uncredited 69–72 73 –76
Strange People Uncredited 73–75 77 –79
Women in Riding Dress Uncredited 76–79 80 –83
Women Drawn by Masochists Uncredited 80 84
Same-Sex Sadism Uncredited 81 85
Pictures of Self-Torment Uncredited 82 86
Women Wearing Trousers Alfred Holtmont 83–91 87 –95
Man's Eccentric and Curious Tales Tonomura Shichirō 92–96 96 –100
A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake Oda Toshimi 97–100 101 –104
Human Steak Uncredited 101–102 105 –106
Journey Through the Desert of Death Kitahara Yūzō 103–104 107 –108
The Ice Field Crazed by Desire Kunieda Yūgo 105–106 109 –110
The Beauty of the Guillotine Platform Uncredited 108–112 112 –116
Gruesome Murder Scenes That Make One Cover One's Eyes Uncredited 113–116 117 –120
The Torment of Kichiya in Mad Love Dan Reitarō 117–122 121 –126

Analysis Notes

The formal contents is printed on PDF page 4. Most numbered editorial pages use a consistent offset of four, with printed page 4 corresponding to PDF page 8 and printed page 124 corresponding to PDF page 121 because later internal numbering includes unnumbered and differently counted leaves. Several personal-name readings in the contents and story bylines remain uncertain, particularly the authors of the eccentric-customs and overseas-fiction sections. The final PDF page contains publication information, advertisements, and notices rather than a substantive article.